Modeling TCP throughput: a simple model and its empirical validation
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '98 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Equation-based congestion control for unicast applications
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication
Measuring link bandwidths using a deterministic model of packet delay
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication
MSWIM '01 Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
MPEG-4 Video Transfer with TCP-Friendly Rate Control
MMNS '01 Proceedings of the 4th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services: Management of Multimedia on the Internet
Streaming Media Congestion Control Using Bandwidth Estimation
MMNS '02 Proceedings of the 5th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services: Management of Multimedia on the Internet
Dummynet and forward error correction
ATEC '98 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Resource allocation for multimedia streaming over the Internet
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Video-on-demand over ATM: constant-rate transmission and transport
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Audio Streaming over Bluetooth: An Adaptive ARQ Timeout Approach
ICDCSW '04 Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops - W7: EC (ICDCSW'04) - Volume 7
Adaptive streaming on heterogeneous networks
WMuNeP '05 Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Wireless multimedia networking and performance modeling
Wireless home entertainment center: reducing last hop delays for real-time applications
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGCHI international conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology
Harmonic placement: file system support for scalable streaming of layer encoded object
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
Video streaming over the internet with optimal bandwidth resource allocation
Multimedia Tools and Applications
AdHoc probe: end-to-end capacity probing in wireless ad hoc networks
Wireless Networks
An adaptive ARQ timeout approach for audio streaming over Bluetooth
International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing
Ensuring fair coexistence of multimedia applications in a wireless home
WD'09 Proceedings of the 2nd IFIP conference on Wireless days
Unreliable transport protocol using congestion control for high-speed networks
Journal of Systems and Software
An adaptive-predictive architecture for video streaming servers
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Adaptation strategies for MGS scalable video streaming
Image Communication
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The increasing popularity of streaming video is a cause for concern for the stability of the Internet because most streaming video content is currently delivered via UDP, without any end-to-end congestion control. Since the internet relies on end systems implementing transmit rate regulation, there has recently been significant interest in congestion control mechanisms that are both fair to TCP and effective in delivering real-time streams.In this paper we design and implement a protocol that attempts to maximize the quality of real-time MPEG-4 video streams while simultaneously providing basic end-to-end congestion control. While several adaptive protocols have been proposed in the literature [An End-to-End rate-based congestion control mechanism for real-time streams in the Internet, in: Proceedings of INFOCOMM'99, March 1999; IEEE Trans. Multimedia 3 (2001) 339], the unique feature of our protocol, the Video Transport Protocol (VTP), is its use of receiver side bandwidth estimation. Such estimation is transmitted to the sender and enables it to adapt to network conditions by altering its sending rate and the bitrate of the transmitted video stream. We deploy our protocol in a real network testbed and extensively study its behavior under varying link speeds and background traffic profiles using the FreeBSD Dummynet link emulator [Dummynet and Forward Error Correction, in: Proceedings of Freenix'98. June 1998]. Our results show that VTP delivers consistent quality video in moderately congested networks and fairly shares bandwidth with TCP in all but a few extreme cases. We also describe some of the challenges in implementing an adaptive video streaming protocol.